Minutes of proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution (1858)
Great Britain. Army. Royal Artillery Institution · Woolwich, Eng., : The Institution · leaf 80
66 Field fortification. can prepare and bring to site the posts and brushwood during the first two hours while the trench is being got out ; and the whole party can complete the work during the remaining two hours. Fig. 2. Where sufficient materials are not easily procurable for covering the whole… … Conditions of ground, rock or marsh, may make it impossible to exca¬ vate to so great a depth as that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or the uneven nature of the site may render it impossible for the soldier to see properly to his front unless he is raised higher above the ground than these trenches allow…
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